PLoS Medicine
            
                    
                        Title Abbreviation
                        
                            PLoS Med
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                        Electronic ISSN
                        
                            1549-1676
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                        Readership
                        
                            Clinicians, Epidemiologists, General Practitioners, Health Scientists, Internists, Physicians, Policy Makers, Public Health Professionals, Researchers
                        
                        
                     
                    
                        Scope
                        
                            PLOS Medicine publishes articles relevant to clinicians, policymakers, and researchers across a range of settings that address the major biological, environmental, social, and political determinants of health. The editors make decisions on submissions based upon their potential to directly and substantially inform clinical practice or health policy, and their relevance to our international audience.
Articles given highest priority for publication are those that address conditions or risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life and quality of life worldwide.
PLOS Medicine also seeks to publish articles in the area of translational medicine that provide substantial, novel mechanistic insights into disease processes, with potential implications for clinical care. Additionally PLOS Medicine considers articles on topics relating to the integrity and ethics of the research enterprise; the practice of medicine; and the application of research to practice to fall within its scope.
                        
                        
                     
                    
                        Sponsoring Association(s)
                        
                            No associations affiliated with this journal
                        
                        
                     
                    
                        Publisher Name
                        
                            Public Library of Science (PLoS)
                        
                        
                     
            
                
                    
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